Samsung Group announced a 10-year, 1,000 trillion won ($648 billion) investment in semiconductors, AI data centers, batteries, and displays in South Korea — the biggest single corporate investment commitment the country has ever seen.
IBM unveiled the world's first sub-1-nanometer chip, packing 100 billion transistors into a fingernail-sized die using a stacked 3D design called nanostack — promising 50% more performance and 70% better efficiency than today's 2nm chips.
Sam Altman called any valuation below $1 trillion a 'nonstarter' when bankers presented him with options. SoftBank — which holds roughly $65 billion in OpenAI — saw its shares fall 13% on the news. The delay would push what was expected to be one of the largest IPOs in history into a second year of waiting.
SentinelOne researchers have identified Gaslight — a Rust-based macOS implant attributed to DPRK-linked actors that embeds 38 fabricated system messages designed to make AI-powered malware analyzers abort or refuse analysis. It steals browser data, Keychain credentials, and terminal history over an AES-GCM encrypted Telegram C2.
Nobel laureate John Jumper, AlphaFold's lead, is heading to Anthropic. Two more key Gemini contributors — Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel — are following. And Noam Shazeer, Google's longest-serving AI veteran, just announced he's joining OpenAI.
MacBook Air jumps from $1,099 to $1,299. The iPad Pro climbs $200. Apple CEO Tim Cook called the memory cost spike 'unavoidable' as HBM demand from AI data centers squeezes supply for consumer products. iPhones, Apple Watch, and AirPods are spared for now.
The Office of the National Cyber Director and the Office of Science and Technology Policy directed OpenAI to limit GPT-5.6 to a small group of vetted partners before any public rollout — a first for named US agencies directly shaping a frontier AI release.
In a Truth Social post, President Trump threatened to impose 100% tariffs on goods from any nation implementing digital services taxes targeting American tech companies — escalating a trade fight that already has the EU, UK, France, Italy, and Spain in his crosshairs, with a July 4 trade-deal deadline looming.
Anthropic told US senators and the White House that operators linked to Alibaba's Qwen AI lab used nearly 25,000 fraudulent accounts to extract Claude's capabilities through 28.8 million exchanges between April and June 2026, surpassing all previous known Chinese distillation campaigns combined.
The European Commission said it preliminarily views Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure as Digital Markets Act gatekeepers, despite neither meeting the law's numerical bars — the first time cloud infrastructure has been targeted under DMA gatekeeper rules.
Adobe has entered a definitive agreement to acquire Topaz Labs, whose Emmy Award-winning AI models for video upscaling, noise removal, and image restoration will integrate across Firefly, Premiere Pro, and Photoshop.
For the first time, a commercial robotic spacecraft will attempt to capture and reboost a government satellite, keeping a 22-year-old astronomy mission alive.